1st Edition
Key Essays Mapping the Contemporary in Literature and Culture
Introduction 1. Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas 2. Blackness Matters – Denise Ferreira da Silva 3. The Superpositioning of Cuteness – Sianne Ngai 4. How Matter matters – Karen Barad 5. Posthumanism – Rosi Braidotti 6. Companion Species – Anna Tsing 7. Feminism and Happiness – Sara Ahmed 8. A Pharmacopornographic Pandemic – Paul B Preciado 9. Epistemologies of the Global South – Boaventura de Sousa Santos 10. Counter Forensics – Eyal Weizmann 11. Necropolitics – Achille Mbembe 12. The Undercommons – Moten and Harney 13. Cosmopolitics – Emily Apter 14. Comrades in Time – Boris Groys 15. The Mentality of the Anthropocene – Cathérine Malabou Afterword
Biography
Johnny Rodger is Professor of Urban Literature at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. He publishes both fiction and criticism. He is the author of Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity (Routledge, 2015).
